A 2000-year environmental history of Jackson Hole, Wyoming, inferred from lake-sediment records

Western North American Naturalist

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 350-364

  Jacobs, Karen ^a   Whitlock, Cathy ^a  

^a MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fire history; Grand Teton National Park; Last 2000 years; Vegetation history

Indexed keywords

EID: 54149089435     PISSN: 15270904     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3398/1527-0904(2008)68[350:AYEHOJ]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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